Robert Miles

San Francisco, CA

Bio

Updated 03/23/26

Robert Miles (also known as Rob Miles) is a British science communicator and educator specializing in AI safety and alignment. He studied Computer Science at the University of Nottingham and dropped out of his PhD program around 2011 to focus on AI safety communication full time. He began creating content for the popular Computerphile YouTube channel around 2015 before launching his own channel, Robert Miles AI Safety, which has accumulated over 169,000 subscribers and more than 7.5 million views covering topics such as the orthogonality thesis, instrumental convergence, and inner misalignment. He is the founder of AISafety.info (also known as Stampy), a community-written interactive FAQ about AI existential risk, and has run the Distillation Fellowship, a paid program funding writers to distill AI safety research into accessible content for the site. He has co-produced the Alignment Newsletter Podcast with Rohin Shah and has received funding from the Long-Term Future Fund to support his educational work. He collaborates with organizations including MIRI and the Future of Humanity Institute to help communicate their research to broader audiences.